Top 35 Richard L. Ratliff Quotes



As I think therefore I amAm I more if I think more?

 

Coming down life’s highwayAt ninety mile an hour I want to slideWith bad brakes and bald tiresInto my final parking space

 

Do your thoughts continue and repeat a cycle Seed, growth, bloom, and seed again

 

Life doesn’t revolve around youIt revolves around those you love

 

Thankful another tomorrow greetsAs I drink from cup of time And prepare to lock the door behind meand leave it to others

 

When you build a house You nail down memories Paint and stain the fabric of time

 

Your words on the screen are my color palette I dip my brush into your words and paint youOn the sky, on the ceiling, on the snow; on the tabletOf things eternal : love truth beauty happiness

 

Life is the night skyAll the dots of stars are happiness

 

Each day is always breaking out anew Aspirations swirling round what you do

 

subway stations…passengers who token through life

 

If you build it well, a satisfaction comesAn honor to say I built that with fidelity,Purpose, value and integrity

 

Save your golden days as time goes byBefore golden years expire

 

We are philosophers of our timeFloating in the moon’s evening glow

 

Time is passing : not leaden steppingBut sprinting on winged feet,Quick silver slipping by.

 

Your laughter : the drugThat cures my emotional infection

 

You read my words and instantly we are both connected

 

I tend the flowers of my mindWatering our memories as they bloom

 

I’d keep your beauty timeless. like a flower pressed in a book, yesI wouldn’t let it fade Folded in the chapters of my mind

 

As the sun sinksIt casts that silver bridgeAcross the lake

 

May your union be filled with loveAnnealed by passion Built on a strong foundation And tempered by time

 

I guess she was a life line Sewing our family fabric togetherFrom me to dad to herGave me a sense of continuity Especially when my daughter was bornAs she was slipping away

 

Fathers and daughters have a special bond. She is always daddy’s little girl.

 

Just that sons and fathersAre like mirrors and daughters are soft

 

I’m the cover of a book,Whose pages are still being written

 

Through the dark night chasing the morning lightThat headlight streaming white through the night

 

In the wind that ruffles through the treesI can find thoughts of you whispering to me

 

Had I known how sweet they wereI would have saved more of these memories

 

I’ve sent you roses many times. I’ve held your hand in mine

 

But you are still you I’m still meAnd we are still we

 

Always enjoyed a smile with dimplesBut time adds wrinkles to the smile

 

SnowWhile falling it hides your passageWhen finished it documents your path

 

Seems hats have been on topOf all the stages comings and goingsHelping us remember heroes and idols

 

Six guns rattling rattling boom boom boomWords and flags folding, folding, foldedThe knell tolls ding ding ding ding ….

 

At the morning’s PowerPoint It’s full of unique bullet points

 

Alcohol is good at disinfecting things It can clean a surface or erase memories

 

 

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